His head returned to its old downcast position.

The struggle between his assumed carelessness and his real inquietude was evidently unequal.

As she looked fixedly on him, with the vigilant eye of affection, the girl's countenance saddened with his.

She nestled closer to his side and resumed the discourse in anxious and entreating tones.
'It is haply the strife between our two nations which has separated us already, and may separate us again, that thus oppresses you,' said she; 'but think, as I do, of the peace that must come, and not of the warfare that now is.

Think of the pleasures of our past days, and of the happiness of our present moments,--thus united, thus living, loving, hoping for each other; and, like me, you will doubt not of the future that is in preparation for us both! The season of tranquillity may return with the season of spring.